Example collocations logo

Short in sentence

7232 examples of Short in a sentence

As an architect, that stark juxtaposition of my sighted and unsighted experience of the same places and the same cities within such a short period of time has given me all sorts of wonderful outsights of the city itself.
This can transport a small payload today, about two kilograms, over a short distance, about 10 kilometers, but it's part of a wider network that may cover the entire country, maybe even the entire continent.
In short, many traditional societies make better use of their elderly and give their elderly more satisfying lives than we do in modern, big societies.
In Britain, 63 percent of all men who come out of short sentences from prison re-offend again within a year.
And again, in Peterborough, we started off with a program, but we also collected data, and over the period of time, we nuanced and changed that program to add a range of other elements, so that the service adapts and we meet the needs of the long term as well as the short term: greater engagement from the prisoners, longer-term engagement as well.
So while it is rotating around its short axis, it's also rolling around the long axis and nodding up and down.
Life is short, and that's a whole year you're talking about giving up.
And D-Rev is short for Design Revolution.
It's short, bone handle, 50 bucks.
In very short, people who have more activity in the right side of the prefrontal cortex are more depressed, withdrawn.
In short, I wanted to moneyball criminal justice.
In fact, it's a little different, and to explain, I need to tell you a short story about myself.
A few short weeks ago, we packed up SkySat 1, put our signatures on it, and waved goodbye for the last time on Earth.
Today, it's sitting in its final launch configuration ready to blast off in a few short weeks.
In short, intelligence doesn't like to get trapped.
In a few short years, we have shown that our model works, is high-impact and can turn a profit, attracting commercial investors that do not typically invest in small farmers in Africa.
We're creating insurance, reducing the risk to our planet and to our economy, and at the same time, in the short term, we're not sacrificing performance.
The thing that I fear, the only thing that I fear, apart from the fact that I've run out of time, is that the window of opportunity for this idea is a short one.
My hair is short like a boy's, and I wear boy's clothes, but I'm a girl, and you know how sometimes you like to wear a pink dress, and sometimes you like to wear your comfy jammies?
Sure, it would have been easy to point out where they felt short.
Now, it's often said that getting closer and closer to the fundamental laws by examining phenomena at low energies, and then higher energies, and then higher energies, or short distances, and then shorter distances, and then still shorter distances, and so on, is like peeling the skin of an onion.
And even our best attempts to work up sympathy for those who are unconnected with us fall miserably short, a sad truth about human nature that was pointed out by Adam Smith.
This is Toxoplasma gondii, or Toxo, for short, because the terrifying creature always deserves a cute nickname.
I could be as short as five feet or as tall as I'd like.
I guess there's a long version and a short version of that.
We've got time for the short version.
In short, we're using data to make novel sockets quickly and cheaply.
Like an author of a book, this started out as writing short sentences, or sequences of DNA code, but this soon turned into writing paragraphs and then full-on novels of DNA code, to make important biological instructions for proteins and living cells.
You can order very short pieces of DNA from a number of companies, and they will start from these four bottles of chemicals that make up DNA, G, A, T and C, and they will build those very short pieces of DNA for you.
Over the past 15 years or so, my teams have been developing the technology for stitching together those short pieces of DNA into complete bacterial genomes.
BackNext